Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.
Biden Crime family and their associates have - lost - over one million F-35 fighter yet parts worth at least $85M.
Finland is one of the countries which fell in buying F-35s.
According to the HT the US has hard time maintaining its own fleet due to unaccounted spare parts.
It is as if they were shipped to Ukraine in advance so that the EU countries would pay for the Ukrainian F-35s for the Russians to shoot them down.
As of now only F-16 is on the table but the missing part problem is a problem or a corrupt country. Two most likely suspects are the USA and Ukraine.
Disney UFO Doc Uncut - Aired Once!
Robert Urich, the legendary Jim Street in S.W.A.T. (1975), is the host of this voyage around the UFOs and their mystery. From New Tomorrowland, in Disneyland, Urich talks about UFO contacts, evidences of their arrivals, abductions by UFOs, military documents, and other things surrounding this controversial subject. For the last 30 years prior (to this doc), the UFOs always have been here, close to us, everyday. Do the aliens exist? Do they really originate from the space? Or could all of it it be fiction created by the military? And if they exist, would they rather be our friends... Or foes?
"Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor."
Wild at Heart is a 1990 American black comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and Isabella Rossellini.
Based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford, it tells the story of Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Dern), a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina, who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kill Sailor.
Lynch was going to produce, but after reading Gifford's book, he decided to write and direct as well. He did not like the ending of the novel and thus decided to change it to fit his vision of the main characters. Wild at Heart is a road movie which includes allusions to The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley and his movies.
Early test screenings for Wild at Heart had a poor reception; Lynch estimated that 300 people walked out of an early screening. On release, the film had mixed critical reviews grossed $14 million against its $10 million budget.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, which at the time was considered a controversial decision. Diane Ladd was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. It has since received some positive re-evaluation from critics.
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as "Sailor" Ripley: the actor described his character as 'a kind of romantic Southern outlaw'. Cage said in an interview that he was 'always attracted to those passionate, almost unbridled romantic characters, and Sailor had that more than any other role I'd played.' Prior to being cast in the film, Cage had met Lynch several times at Musso & Frank Grill which they both frequented. When Lynch read Gifford's novel, he immediately wanted Cage to play Sailor.
- Laura Dern as Lula Pace Fortune: previously, Dern had played a supporting role in Lynch's film, Blue Velvet. For Dern, Wild at Heart' was the first opportunity she had 'to play not only a very sexual person, but also someone who was, in her own way, incredibly comfortable with herself'. When Lynch read Gifford's novel, he immediately thought of Dern to play Lula.
Diane Ladd as Marietta Fortune, Lula's overbearing mother, who forbids Lula and Sailor's relationship; she forms a grudge against Sailor after he rejects her advances. Ladd and Dern are mother and daughter in real life.
- Willem Dafoe as Bobby Peru
- Harry Dean Stanton as Johnnie Farragut
- Isabella Rossellini as Perdita Durango
- Calvin Lockhart as Reggie
- J. E. Freeman as Marcellus Santos
- W. Morgan Sheppard as Mr. Reindeer
- Crispin Glover as Dell
- Grace Zabriskie as Juana Durango
- Marvin Kaplan as Uncle Pooch
- David Patrick Kelly as "Dropshadow"
- Freddie Jones as George Kovich
- John Lurie as "Sparky"
- Jack Nance as "00 Spool"
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Buddy
- Sherilyn Fenn as Girl In Accident
- Frances Bay as Madam
- Frank Collison as Timmy Thompson
- Sheryl Lee as The Good Witch
- Charlie Spradling as Irma
- Peter Bromilow as Hotel Manager
- Sally Boyle as Aunt Rootie
- Gregg Dandridge as Bobby Ray Lemon
- Koko Taylor as Zanzibar Singer
Legacy
Despite poor initial reviews, Wild at Heart came to be viewed favorably in subsequent years. It was ranked the 47th best film of the 1990s in an IndieWire critics' poll, the 26th greatest film of the same period in a Complex poll, and the 53rd best in Rolling Stone's poll.
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"In his remote Asian hideaway, the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his archrival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, as the first step in his plan to become leader of the world's most terrible criminals."
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu is a 1967 British crime thriller adventure film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Christopher Lee, Horst Frank, Douglas Wilmer and Tsai Chin. It was the third British/West German Constantin Film co-production of the Dr. Fu Manchu series and the first to be filmed in Hong Kong. It was generally released in the U.K. through Warner-Pathé (as the second half of a double feature with the Lindsay Shonteff film The Million Eyes of Sumuru) on 3 December 1967.
Cast
Christopher Lee ... Dr. Fu Manchu
Tony Ferrer ... Inspector Ramos
Douglas Wilmer ... Nayland Smith/Imposter
Howard Marion-Crawford ... Dr. Petrie
Tsai Chin ... Lin Tang
Wolfgang Kieling ... Dr. Lieberson
Suzanne Roquette ... Maria
Noel Trevarthen ... Mark Weston
Horst Frank ... Rudy
Peter Carsten ... Kurt
Maria Rohm ... Ingrid Swenson
Mona Chong ... Jasmin
Eddie Byrne ... Ship's Captain
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is a 1992 documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of linguist, intellectual, and political activist Noam Chomsky.
Canadian filmmakers Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick expand the analysis of political economy and mass media presented in Manufacturing Consent, a 1988 book Chomsky wrote with Edward S. Herman.
Overview
The film presents and illustrates Chomsky and Herman's propaganda model thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas and interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. A centerpiece of the film is a long examination of the history of The New York Times' coverage of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which Chomsky says exemplifies the media's unwillingness to criticize an ally of the elite.
Until the release of The Corporation (2003) (link below), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful feature documentary in Canadian history playing theatrically in over 300 cities around the world. It appeared in more than 50 international film festivals where it received 22 awards. It was broadcast on television in over 30 markets and translated into a dozen languages.
Chomsky confessed in an on-stage interview at the 2013 New York City Documentary festival that he has never actually seen the documentary because "I can't stand watching myself... but I'm told it was a pretty impressive film."
In a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that "the positive impact of it has been astonishing to me" but people mistakenly get the impression that he is the leader of a movement that they should join. He also criticizes The New York Times review of the film, which mistakes his message for being a call for voter organizing rather than for engaging in media critique and political action.
Companion book
Mark Achbar edited a companion book of the same name. It features a transcript of the film annotated with excerpts from referenced and relevant materials as well as several comments from Chomsky interspersed throughout.
Eighteen "Philosopher All-Stars" baseball cards (as seen in the film) are also included. On the back of each card is a short summary of the person, titles of their major works, and a series of quotations attributed to the individual.
The people featured as cards in the set are: René Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Mary Wollstonecraft, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Sojourner Truth, Karl Marx, Sitting Bull, Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Bertrand Russell, Michel Foucault, and Noam Chomsky.
The book made the Globe and Mail national bestseller list in Canada. The first half of the book, hyperlinked to the relevant portions of the film's audio, is available online from Z Magazine. The entire book is available as a PDF document on the Region 2 DVD of the film (link below).
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"The crew is running out of money to finish their film."
The State of Things (German: Der Stand der Dinge) is a 1982 film directed by Wim Wenders. It tells the story of a film crew stuck in Portugal after the production runs out of film stock and money. The director travels to Los Angeles in search of his missing producer.
Plot
A film crew in Portugal shoots a black-and-white science fiction film about the survivors on a post-apocalyptic Earth, titled The Survivors. The shooting stops when the production runs out of film stock and money. In an abandoned hotel, the crew waits for money to arrive or a sign from vanished producer Gordon. As they grow restless and bored, the film depicts some of their philosophical thoughts and emotional reactions. Director Friedrich Munro finally sets off to find Gordon in Los Angeles who hides in a mobile home because of money he owes to the Mafia.
Cast
Patrick Bauchau as Friedrich, the Director
Allen Garfield (as Allen Goorwitz) as Gordon, the Producer
Isabelle Weingarten as Anna
Rebecca Pauly as Joan
Jeffrey Kime as Mark
Geoffrey Carey as Robert
Camilla Mora as Julia
Alexandra Auder as Jane
Paul Getty Jr. as Dennis, the Writer
Viva (as Viva Auder) as Kate
Samuel Fuller as Joe, the Cameraman
Roger Corman as the Lawyer
Janet Rasak as Karen
Artur Semedo as the Production Manager
Francisco Baião as the Soundman
Robert Kramer as the Camera operator
Monty Bane as Herbert
Filming
The film emerged during the production of Wenders' 1981 Hammett for Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola interrupted the shooting to have the screenplay re-written. Wenders returned to Europe for an intermediate film project, which was not realized in the end. He then went to Portugal to help out director Raúl Ruiz with film stock during the making of his film The Territory (1981). Wenders hired much of the cast and crew to make The State of Things, including lead cinematographer Henri Alekan, the noted photographer of Jean Cocteau's 1946 motion picture Beauty and the Beast. After completing the filming in Portugal, Wenders flew to Los Angeles to shoot the final scenes before continuing work on Hammett.
Background info
The State of Things bears many references to other movies and movie makers. Fictitious director Friedrich Munro's name is an homage to silent film director Friedrich Murnau. The name of his cameraman Joe Corby is an anagram of Joe Biroc. Other film makers and films referred to are Fritz Lang, The Searchers, Body and Soul, Thieves' Highway, He Ran All the Way and They Drive by Night.
The soundtrack includes original music from Jürgen Knieper, as well as tracks from Joe Ely, X and The Del-Byzanteens. Jim Jarmusch was a then member of The Del-Byzanteens which often leads to the misinformation that Jarmusch co-wrote the music score. Leftover film stock from The State of Things was later used on the first third of Jarmusch's 1984 black-and-white film Stranger Than Paradise.
Although the film The Survivors, which the crew is shooting during the opening of The State of Things, was repeatedly called a remake of either Day the World Ended or Most Dangerous Man Alive by reviewers and encyclopaedia,[2][3] it bears no close resemblance to either except for the post-apocalyptic scenery.
In 1994, Wenders made Lisbon Story, in which the fictitious film director in The State of Things, Friedrich Munro (played again by Bauchau), reappears under the name Friedrich Monroe, having expatriated to Portugal.
Awards
The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival of 1982. In 1983, it won the German Film Award in Gold for Cinematography and in Silver for Best Fiction Film.
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Tali-Ihantala 1944 (English title "1944: The Final Defence" or "Battle for Finland") is a 2007 Finnish war film directed by Åke Lindman and Sakari Kirjavainen, based on the Battle of Tali–Ihantala during the Continuation War. Filming began during the summer of 2006 and was screened in autumn 2007. Lindman wanted the film to be as real as possible, and only include facts. He also wanted Finns to remember the sacrifices the soldiers made in those battles
The Battle of Tali–Ihantala (June 25 to July 9, 1944) was part of the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War (1941–1944), which occurred during World War II. The battle was fought between Finnish forces - using war materiel provided by Germany - and Soviet forces. To date, it is the largest battle in the history of the Nordic countries. At the onset of the battle the Finnish troops were some 50,000 strong against some 150,000 Russians.
The Battle of Tali-Ihantala begun right after the disastrous and speedy Russian take-over of the Karelian Isthmus, and the town of Viipuri. That feat took the Russians just some ten days. Finnish Army was, in my opinion, arrogant, misinformed, misguided, spent on vacation do do farming - everything but prepared to the swift attack of the Red Army at full throttle. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
The Finns regained their composure, and the victory of the Finns at the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, and the other large but lesser battles in the same region probably sealed the independence of Finland. It become patently clear to Stalin that the Finland was ready willing, and able to defend her territory. As much as Stalin would have loved to continue, he realized that taking over Finland would tie die down too many divisions. The race towards Berlin had already begun, and the outcome of the war in Europe would be resolved in Berlin, not in Helsinki. Stalin pulled his troops from the Finnish front, which gave the Finns an opportunity to start negotiating peace terms.
The movie was made using a wide array of genuine wartime vehicles and, when it was not possible to acquire originals, replicas were used. Some of the tanks used had participated in the actual real-life battles depicted in the film and had been stored in a museum. Also used was a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 replica made by the German company Flug + Werk. During the shooting of the movie, the aircraft was decorated with markings similar to that of Major Erich Rudorffer's aircraft in 1944.
The reception for the film was mixed. Most of the criticism was targeted at the lack of main characters and a proper plot. because of this the film has been called a documentary or biographic movie. Then again, in the absence of fictional characters, the film depicts a great number of real-life characters. Unfortunately, some of the most important characters of the battle, such as artillery General Vilho Nenonen as well as the people running the intelligence are absent from the movie. Now it seems as it it was just a regular battle. Or a battle of Lagus' tanks. But it was Nenonen's genius with artillery, and Col. Kuhlmey's Stukas that, based on intel, often times destroyed the enemy forces, or their supplies, before they could attack or even arrive at the scene.
Finnish with English subtitles.
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